George F. Will

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From Scotland, where Adam Smith pioneered systematic thinking about economics, comes an adjective, “carnaptious,” that fits people who are allergic to economic euphoria. It means cantankerous. Let’s think carnaptiously about...

Governments routinely behave badly, but sometimes their mean-spiritedness comes to the Supreme Court’s attention. On Tuesday, it will hear oral arguments concerning the constitutionality of measures that California’s government has...

WASHINGTON  American democracys comic opera frequently features collaborations of bootleggers and Baptists. These entertainments are so named because during Prohibition, Baptists thought banning Demon Rum would improve public morals...